Back To Status Quo Only More Dangerous


 


Yesterday’s six state elections confirmed what had been suspected and feared all along. That is, Malays are now deeply and dangerously polarised.
This was gleaned earlier from reviewing the last 15th general election. While the just-completed elections did not change any state government, with last November’s election Pakatan Harapan’s victory in May 2018 was repeated.
However, that was prematurely aborted by the conniving Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Then, the young and inexperienced Harapan leaders had a misplaced and unwarranted trust in the old man.
They naively believed his claim that he was instrumental in toppling former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak. They forgot that it was Mahathir who was responsible for Najib’s fast rise in politics in the first place.
As could be anticipated, the ever-scheming Mahathir, together with his backdoor accomplices Muhyiddin Yassin and Azmin Ali, ended Harapan’s short-lived government.
Former prime minister Dr Mahathir MohamadThe pair was rightly cursed as “pengkhianat negara” (national traitors). I would add that description to Mahathir.
These last six state elections also revealed a hitherto ignored but disturbing development - the rise of the Islamists and “ketuanan Melayu” (Malay supremacists).
If Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, a leader with unchallenged Islamic and nationalist credentials, could not make any inroads against them despite his recent vigorous and untiring campaign, then no one could.
As such, it is time for him and others who share his vision of a peaceful, prosperous and inclusive Malaysia to change tack, and do so dramatically, radically, and in no uncertain terms.
The threat posed by these Islamists and nationalists is more ominous than that by the communists after the war.
In my book titled “Towards A Competitive Malaysia” (2007) I wrote that Malaysia remained unique for having defeated the communists, more so as she did it without any foreign military aid.
Meanwhile, in nearby then-South Vietnam, the Americans with their greatest economy, mightiest military and their ‘best and brightest’ could not prevail against the pajama-clad Viet Congs.
While former US secretary of defense, Robert McNamara was consumed with his infamous “body counts”, the Malaysian effort, led by the brilliant strategist Major-General Mahmud Sulaiman, opted for the very opposite tactic.
He gave these communist guerrillas every chance to surrender and escape from being killed. He saw immense propaganda value in having them alive, repentant and leading productive lives.
He analogised the war against the terrorists to exterminating rats. Killing and poisoning them would not work as those rodents could multiply faster.
Besides, those poisons could backfire on the innocent. Instead, Mahmud addressed the root causes of communism - eliminating poverty, better education, and most of all assuring and promising them a peaceful productive life out of the fetid Malaysian jungle.
Prime Minister Anwar IbrahimAnwar must adopt a similar counterintuitive strategy. Strip these disruptive and destructive Islamists and nationalists of the self-styled characterisations as defenders of Islam and “pejuang bangsa” (champions of the race).
Expose their vacuity and lack of constructive ideas. Islam needs no defenders, least of all from these scoundrels.
Anwar had correctly begun by arresting corrupt leaders. Go further and much more aggressively. Recruit accomplished foreign prosecutors and investigators.
And most of all, address the grouses of these latter-day champions of the race, in particular, their plaintive cry on their current pathetic state that mocks their claim of Malaysia being “Tanah Airku” (my homeland).
I agree with their lament but alas, disagree profoundly as to the needed remedies.
With the Islamists, Anwar should distance himself from the likes of the Indonesian Abdul Somad Batubara as well as the less virulent but no less destructive local variants found at such places as the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (Istac) and local public campuses.
Instead, invite the likes of the Harvard-trained Ulil Abdulla and the New York-based Syamsul Ali.
Engage intellectuals, avoid charlatans
Singapore wisely banned this Abdul Somad charlatan from entering the republic.
Likewise, with those Malay intellectuals in the National Council of Professors (NCP), they should invite successful Malay entrepreneurs, professionals and scientists to Sri Perdana.
That would at least inspire the young. My late father had an apt expression on our current practice of honouring the corrupt and the losers – “membajakan lalang” (fertilising the weeds).
The greatest contributor to the lack of Malay competitiveness and thus, our current blighted condition, apart from corruption, is the education system.
Revamp the national curriculum to make all Malaysians fluently bilingual (Malay and English), literate in the sciences and competent in mathematics.
Get rid of the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) and other religious bodies. Use the funds saved to build libraries and laboratories in national schools and recruit well-trained teachers. Stop sending our students to mediocre foreign universities.
Anwar does not need to be reminded that in the 1986 national election, a few years after he joined Umno, the Islamic party won only one out of the 177 parliamentary seats.
He did it then, and he could it do again, this time out of Umno.
To beat the Islamists and Malay nationalists, Anwar’s top priority must be to make Malays competitive so we could be respected, and be worthy of Hang Tuah’s immortal exhortation – “Takkan Melayu Hilang Di Dunia!” (Malays will never be lost in this world). - Mkini
M BAKRI MUSA is a Malaysian-born and Canadian-trained surgeon in private practice in Silicon Valley, California. He writes at bakrimusa.blogspot.com
The views expressed here are those of the author/contributor and do not necessarily represent the views of MMKtT.


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